Thorin

[JumpingJackSprat]

I saw the hobbit and thought as a standalone name this is nice - unusual, sounds nice, looks nice written down. What does everyone else think?

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Arwen is a legit name of Welsh origin.

Still wouldn't though. People would assume LOTR fanparents.

Tyrion is also Welsh, usually spelt Tirion and is a girls name. Game of Thrones will kill that names usage dead though, for girls at least.

[dementedma]

Friend just named their baby daughter Arwen

[aoife24]

idn't there a bbc correspondent torin (sp) douglas? I always quite liked it.

[JumpingJackSprat]

I'm not pregnant by the way so there is no child about to have this name hung on him. I don't need to wake up. I just thought I'd get people's opinions on it as I like names and particularly liked the sound and look of this one.

But I am glad I'm not the only one who likes it. I think it's nice to see different names up for discussion rather than the same old ones all the time.

[Brokenpurpleheart]

OP you would also be naming him after a character in a book that is not particularly pleasant, he is not the dashing hero of the film - more a grumpy, arrogant and somewhat snobbish dwarf king!

[ErrolTheDragon]

I knew some people who named their son Aslan ... thing is, it was a perfectly normal name in the part of the world they came from. I don't think they realised that living in the UK people would associate it with fiction!

Thorin sounds like it should be a real name somewhere - so, if you can find out where and emigrate, you'd be ok.

[lljkk]

hmm.
tbh, it's the sort of name that makes me crave hearing someone discuss how much they like the names Richard, John or Edward.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Torin is so much better!

[ErrolTheDragon]

Yes, it is a nice name but no, you shouldn't use it for a real child.

[squoosh]

I hate when people name their kids after characters from fantasy books.

[florascotia]

Also as others have said, Torin or Torrin is a well-established, if fairly uncommon, Scottish name.
Strongly reminiscent of Gaelic Torr = little hill. Also probably has long-ago origins in Viking-occupied Scotland and links to Norse god Thor. Scottish names based on this often lose the 'h' after the initial 't', for example Viking 'Thorkill' = modern Scottish 'Torquil'.

Thorin = 20th cent made-up name for magical creature. The way that Tolkein and other fantasy writers 'pick-and-mix' from past mythologies always makes me feel rather uneasy. But that is simply my view, and we all have different opinions/feelings ...

[soontobeslendergirl]

Like others have said, I know a Scottish Torin and it is a much nicer and less Dwarfey name :o

In my head I think you'd need to be built like a Viking to carry off Thorin for some reason - maybe it's to counteract The Hobbit-ness of it.

[Morgause]

People will laugh. I'm of the hippy generation that called their children Frodo, Aragorn etc. Some friends of ours did - we didn't. Like Zowie Bowie they changed their names as soon as they could.

There are so many lovely real names why open your DC to the possibility of teasing?

[saintmerryweather]

People give their kids much more ridiculous names than Thorin every single day

[willyoulistentome]

How would you pronounce it again Gruff?

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

One of my best friends named her DS Torin 17 years ago. It's a great name. To date, not one person has questioned it.

Unless you live in Middle Earth directly, please go for it.

[hoppinghare]

I don't like it.

[TheNightIsDark]

If you are going for fictional dwarfs then Tyrion is nice

[TheNightIsDark]

If you are going for fictional dwarfs then Tyrion is nice

[mollymawk]

It will be okay as long as his father is called Thrain and his grandfather is called Thror.

[gruffalosfriend]

I like Torin (pronounced Tor-in).

[gruffalosfriend]

I like Torin (pronounced Tor-in).

[gruffalosfriend]

I like Torin (pronounced Tor-in).

[crumpet]

And I speak as a lover of all things Tolkien